Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 2 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 3 | The guard did as he was told , then stood back , watching as Tolonen limped slowly across to the corpse . |
| 4 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 5 | He found the predatory birds oriented less accurately to the alarm calls , as Marler would have predicted . |
| 6 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 7 | Kate walked out , and climbed the shallow stairs that led so comfortably to the upper floor . |
| 8 | He also sent us out to a dhow in the harbour to fish ; we had never before been on a vessel that rode so close to the water . |
| 9 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 10 | The cart moved on downhill to the toll-gate . |
| 11 | Precious substances contributed most effectively to the functioning of traditional societies by defining roles in the functioning of the hierarchy of authority . |
| 12 | Perhaps most fundamental of all , however , was the climate of hostility and mistrust that existed between East and West during the ‘ new cold war ’ of the late 1970s and early 1980s ; and it was the dissipation of this climate , above all through a series of face-to-face meetings between the Soviet and American leaders , that contributed most directly to the resumption of progress in arms control and other matters . |
| 13 | The person who contributed most significantly to the defence of the Copernican system was Galileo . |
| 14 | Maybe , she reflected , storming round her room to throw some clothes into her suitcase , it was because she rose so satisfactorily to the bait ? |
| 15 | His peripatetic labours contributed greatly both to the making of the Vienna Sales Convention and to its ratification in the years that followed . |
| 16 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 17 | And its hoped this will reveal exactly why the plane crashed so close to the airport . |
| 18 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 19 | Sincere thanks to all who contributed so generously to the thanksgiving anniversary . |
| 20 | ‘ failure to give clear orders about the duties of officers contributed so greatly to the causes of this disaster . ’ |
| 21 | We moved in closer to the stream and , attracted by something ( though now I have no idea what ) I went to the stream edge . |
| 22 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 23 | When asked how the tree came about she said ‘ Well , it 's just like God to make something useful out of what we think is rubbish ’ — a comment which referred not only to the fruit but also to her own convict origins . |
| 24 | The work referred not only to the seemingly private areas of our lives like the family album but also the more public construction of motherhood ( baby food ads and Mothercare catalogues ) . |
| 25 | By then she was talking to my back as I headed downstairs again to the communal phone on the wall . |
| 26 | Back at the table I was in crepuscular mood for a few minutes , then bent once more to the task of diverting the wedding guests . |
| 27 | The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner . |
| 28 | A different complexion might be put on the same phenomena if instead we referred more particularly to the problems of ‘ criminal justice ’ and ‘ penal policy ’ . |
| 29 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 30 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |